
Josiah Bounderby, "the Bully of humility” in Charles Dickens's "Hard Times" (1854)
In Charles Dickens's "Hard Times" (1854), the banker Josiah Bounderby is dubbed "the Bully of humility" (the phraseseems to permeate the book but only comes up three times). I had always read this as referring to how Bounderby bullies others with his humble origins, and in a discussion on the





